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The jara of Cartagena, a species in the conservation of which researchers from the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT) work, has been chosen Plant of the Year 2018 in the website The Pigs of Nature.
In the last two years, other species whose conservation has led the UPCT, the chickpea Tallante and chamomile Escombreras, were chosen Plant of the Year 2016 and 2017, respectively.
Researchers at the School of Agricultural Engineers of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT) are working this year on a project for the conservation of Cartagena de la Sierra, granted by the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment, which is also co-financed by the Ministry of Water, Agriculture and Environment of the Region of Murcia.
The Cartagena jara (Cistus heterophyllus subsp. Carthaginensis) is a shrub up to 80-90 cm high, with a pink flower, which is among the most threatened flora species in the Iberian Peninsula, with less than 20 individuals in the wild .
It is a jara present only in the Spanish east, in the eastern section of the Sierra de Cartagena and in the Pobla de Vallbona (Valencia), included in the category "in danger of extinction" in the Spanish Catalog of Threatened Species.
The jara of Cartagena has been imposed in the popular vote to the rest of finalists: butterfly apolo (by the University of Valencia), ibis hermit and evergreen giant of La Gomera (by the University of Cordoba), born and waited for Bolos (by the Universitat de Barcelona), Triops emeritensis (by the University of Extremadura), European mink and Drosera longifolia (by the University of Burgos) and Gadoria falukei (by the University of Seville).
In the section of animal species, the winner has been the nacra, a mollusk endemic to the Mediterranean.
Source: UPCT
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